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You're right, it is a Fred Freeman. Check out this Argosy cover, and notice the subtle differences from the image you provided: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcgpi7WZMH1qagrc1o1_500.jpg Illustrators in the 40s-70s often recycled (and resold) illustrations for use in pulp magazines, book...

Kayakers' Cove is a beautiful spot, and the diving in June should be great. Shore dives from the cove are okay, but the best diving is a short boat ride away at spots like Mary's Rock, Shark Tooth, the Fox Island wreck, Barwell Island, and other nearby locations. June is a bit early to see a...

Halibut Cove is mud bottom, fairly shallow, some relief and critters but not a lot. A really neat drift dive is the channel between Halibut Cove and Halibut Cove Lagoon, where the current just screams on the exchange. Octopus, every variety/color starfish, nudibranchs, crabs, etc. plus a wild...

Summer diving in Resurrection bay can be excellent, with good vis and lots of life. But to get there, you need to boat a ways out of town, at least as far as Fox Island and beyond. The silty glacial run-off close to the town of Seward pretty much precludes shore diving during summer months...

Mad Dog Expeditions out of NYC. March 23-30. Email info@maddogexpeditions.com or visit their web site. Definitely RB-friendly, plus great folks to dive with!

Like others who have posted to this thread, I have been researching existing designs for a tow sled. I found an extremely detailed report covering existing designs, ergonomic challenges, load calcs, etc. http://www.gratisweb.com/aeronautico/proyecto/project.htm Armed with this info, I've...

Snowbear's suggestion for Lowell Point is right on. If it's earthquake debris you're looking for, most of the "good stuff" (buildings, oil tanks, railroad tankers & locomotives, etc.) was either deposited far upshore by the tsunami, or slid down the underwater slope past 200 fsw. The present...

Milk? Were you diving in front of the outfall pipe at the fish processing pier? <just kidding> Cold, yes, but Kodiak and many other parts of Alaska can have outstanding visibility, thriving marine life, and lots of historic sites & shipwrecks. Cook Inlet is essentially undivable, Kachemak Bay...

...on the accident is posted here: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031211/nyth141_1.html

A History Channel series host, who was filming in Palau, reportedly drowned Saturday. KOROR, Palau -- A host of a History Channel series featuring sunken ships drowned during a 250-foot dive to the USS Perry, a World War II wreck. Michael Norwood, 36, an experienced British scuba diver and...

Check out www.DiveAleutian.com Disclaimer: I am a principal in the company that is putting together two trips for the 2004 summer season to dive the wreck of the SS Aleutian in 220 fsw in Uyak Bay, Kodiak Island, Alaska.

I had a busy summer and haven't been around in a couple of months. Just worked my way through this entire thread (even digesting the recurrent pro-DIR and DIR-is-Satan arguments) and just wanted to add my 2/c about Technical Diving Handbook. Although it's due for a thorough update as...

...but independent doubles can work perfectly well. Has anyone ever dived a single with a pony? What is that config if not independent doubles? Sure, they're "lopsided" twins, but many divers (including the OP) look at their twin 80s (or whatever) as a big-ass pony and manage their gas...

While not a direct answer to the OP's question, I remember that when I started diving seriously enough to want to optimize my trim, I asked everybody I could find what weight config *they* used to try and sort out what I was doing wrong (or right). Toward that end, this is my current optimal...

...about the CF factor vis-a-vis blinding your buddy. I get eye strain from looking at my buddy from the corner of my eye so I don't dazzle him full in the face. On the other hand, I do lots of solo diving so that's not a huge deal. I can definitely see the entanglement possibilities and take...

I got lots of "stuffed hosen" und "suicide clips" und "Posieden reguns" but it quickly became clear that this site has a thing against sling bottles, helmet lights, gauge consoles, wrist slates, and all kinds of perfectly okay (if not strictly DIR) gear items. Some of the DIW examples are so...

You might really have something there! My Halcyon 18w HID is helmet-mounted, and I'm scared $hitle$$ that I'm gonna whack it on an overhead sometime and take out the bulb. I'll PM you with this and ask for a price (which you may have already figured?) but if it's not against the board's rules...

Where do you guys go to do Open Water? Drive to Valdez? Here in Anchorage it's 90% Whittier and 10% Seward unless we can score a boat trip somewhere. BTW, if your LDS is sitting on a return for 2 weeks before even SENDING IT OUT, you might want to look for an alternative venue.

I downloaded a trial version of Mix Master, which is now part of the Voyager dive planning & mixing package instead of a stand-alone program. I've spent about 30 minutes with it so far, playing "what-if" with mixes and it seems to do a great job there. The dive profile input screen seems a...

Does anyone know of a shareware or affordably priced commercial software for trimix blending? Specifically, a program that allows you to plug in your present (partially full) mix plus your target mix, and it'll give you the gas to add to get there? I found a UK shareware that looks good...